User:Umbire the Phantom/Luck item
A luck item is a general term for any artifact in NetHack that acts as a luckstone when carried, and thus changes your Luck and Luck timeout in the exact same way as one.
Contents
List of luck items
Strategy
Since all luck items in vanilla NetHack are quest artifacts, the ability to obtain a luck item can render the guaranteed luckstone within Mines' End redundant; such characters may elect to postpone their trip to the Gnomish Mines in favor of Sokoban, for example, or else will choose not to proceed beyond Minetown. On the other hand, players may want a luckstone to tide them over until they obtain their luck item.
As with luckstones, there is little tangible benefit to carrying multiple luck items outside of a container; with non-negative base Luck, blessing is not strictly necessary in terms of luck timeout, except to prevent the luck item becoming cursed. However, luck items are often preferred over luckstones due to the other benefits from their base items, and as quest artifacts they are also intelligent and will resist the curse items spell 80% of the time, making blessing them an unambiguous boon.
Variants
Luckblade is an artifact weapon that appears in many variants and acts as a luckstone when carried.
UnNetHack
dNetHack
In dNetHack, the Convict quest artifact, The Iron Spoon of Liberation, acts as a luckstone.
DynaHack
SLASH'EM
References
- SPFX_LUCK in artilist.he
- artifact.c, line 298
